Colleen Hoover Quotes

Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, ‘I’ve lasted five years now. What’s five more?

~ Colleen Hoover

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

~ Colleen Hoover

I’m meeting the attic before I meet the girl.

~ Colleen Hoover

What a nickname. Teenagers can be so cruel. I’m embarrassed to be one of them.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

~ Colleen Hoover

Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?

~ Colleen Hoover

But the second she opened her eyes and looked at me, I knew. She was either going to be the death of me . . . or she was going to be the one who finally brought me back to life.

~ Colleen Hoover

My heart made it's choice, and it chose you.

~ Colleen Hoover

Naked truths aren't always pretty.

~ Colleen Hoover

Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.That was what Atlas was telling me when he said “I love you.” He was letting me know that I was the biggest wave he’d ever come across. And I brought so much with me that my impressions would always be there, even when the tide rolled out.

~ Colleen Hoover

Okay, so how does this work exactly? I ask as we walk toward his car. Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.

~ Colleen Hoover

I remember one time we were walking into a grocery store and an old man was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. I asked my dad if we could give him some money and he told me no, that he works hard for his money and he wasn’t about to let me give it away. He said it isn’t his fault that other people don’t want to work. He spent the whole time we were in the grocery store telling me about how people take advantage of the government and until the government stops helping those people by giving them handouts, the problem won’t ever go away… I believed him. That was three years ago and all this time I thought homeless people were homeless because they were lazy or drug addicts or just didn’t want to work like other people. But now I know that’s not true. Sure, some of what he said was true to an extent, but he was using the worst-case scenarios. Not everyone is homeless because they choose to be. They’re homeless because there isn’t enough help to go around. And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own selfishness and greed.

~ Colleen Hoover

If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.

~ Colleen Hoover

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

~ Colleen Hoover

Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.Our daughter.I love you so much, Sam.I’m looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.It’s all worth it.It’s the beautiful moments like these that make up for the uglylove.

~ Colleen Hoover

The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.

~ Colleen Hoover

Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow,than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, Swept Away)

~ Colleen Hoover

As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I’m writing.

~ Colleen Hoover

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

~ Colleen Hoover

Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if they end up happy together.

~ Colleen Hoover

The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I’m choosing to stand up taller. I’ll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I’ll never stay on the ground.

~ Colleen Hoover

I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.

~ Colleen Hoover

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.

~ Colleen Hoover

There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.

~ Colleen Hoover

Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.

~ Colleen Hoover

It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one.

~ Colleen Hoover

There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things.

~ Colleen Hoover

I didn't mean to scare you. I'm not suicidal if that's what's freaking you out. I'm not fucked up in the head. I'm not deranged. I'm not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. I'm just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself, so I get a little intense when I think about her.

~ Colleen Hoover

Whatever he goes through, I feel. Whatever I go through, he feels. It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.

~ Colleen Hoover

Nothing in my life has ever felt so good yet it hurt so achingly bad.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'll love you even when I can'tI'll love you even when I shouldn't

~ Colleen Hoover

I stood beside the U-Haul, and I just watched her. I stared at her while she looked on with the saddest look in her eyes. I wanted to know what she was thinking about, what was going on in her head. What had mad her so sad? I wanted to hug her so bad. When she finally got out of the U-Haul and I introduced myself to her, it took all I had to let go of her hand. I wanted to hold on to it forever. I wanted to let her know that she wasn't alone. Whatever burden it was that she was carrying around, I wanted to carry it for her. I wish I could, Lake. I wish I could take it all away. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. It doesn't just go away.

~ Colleen Hoover

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.

~ Colleen Hoover

I would give anything to have that memory back--to see what it was like between us when we loved each other enough to believe it was forever.

~ Colleen Hoover

While he spends all of his time trying to remember, I spend all of my time trying to forget.I don’t want to remember how it feels to love him.I want to forget everything in this world that reminds me of him.

~ Colleen Hoover

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life.

~ Colleen Hoover